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Google drops SEP claims against Microsoft

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2013

Google reached a settlement agreement and agreed to a consent order with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ending the agency's nearly two-year

Higher notification and approval thresholds for investments in Australia by US investors are extended to New Zealand investors

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • Australia, New Zealand, USA
  • -
  • January 21 2013

The amendments to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulations 1989 (Cth) extend the higher notification and approval thresholds for US

US: DOJ car parts investigations

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2012

Japan-based Tokai Rika has admitted to participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of heater control panels, agreeing to pay a US$17.7 million criminal

US: eBay to fight DOJ hiring lawsuit

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2012

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) sued eBay in the US District Court, alleging that its agreement with Intuit stopped each company from recruiting one

Overseas competition news

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • European Union, New Zealand, South Korea, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • October 11 2012

Korean Air Lines and Emirates are the fifth and sixth airlines to settle in the NZ Competition Commission’s investigation into price fixing for fuel and security surcharges on cargo

Apple, Penguin and Macmillan file response to US DOJ lawsuit

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2012

Apple, Macmillan and Penguin Group USA have filed their responses to allegations by the US Department of Justice (and a class action suit by 15 states) that five publishers colluded with Apple to limit price competition in the e-book market

Plaintiffs win record settlement in VisaMastercard class action

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2012

In what is being touted as the largest antitrust settlement ever, Visa, MasterCard and some of the US’s largest banks have agreed to pay US$7.25 billion to a class of approximately seven million retailers for allegedly conspiring to fix the fees retailers paid to accept credit and debit cards

DOJ action against Apple and publishers in relation to e-books

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2012

On 11 April the Department of Justice (the department) reached a settlement with three of the largest book publishers in the US Hachette Book Group (USA), HarperCollins Publishers LLC and Simon & Schuster Inc

Stopped from bidding when you didn’t agree to stand still an interesting US case

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2012

A recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery, which is the leading US court on company law cases, provides a timely reminder for parties to potential MA transactions that care needs to be taken in drafting confidentiality agreements to avoid unintended limitations on future conduct

US federal jury convicts largest Taiwan LCD producer for price-fixing

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2012

Following an eight-week trial, a federal jury convicted the largest Taiwan LCD producer, its Houston-based subsidiary, and their two former top executives for their participation in a five-year conspiracy to fix the prices of thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels sold worldwide